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CONSUMPTION.

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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-11
The Old Man Was Too Hasty.

Boston Post. ,%
A stald old Hubbardston farmer came
to the Hub yesterday to do "a leetle
tradin'," and as he meandered down
Washington street, ''headed for the
Fitchburg depot" as he said, he sud-
denly halted, gazed excitedly at sign
in front of clothing house, and then
darted into the store. enchanting:
well, l yum, that is goodp' After
due deliberatiOn he selected $40 suit
of clothes, rendering in payment lust
81. That's the right change, sir,o said
he to the astonished clerk. "But don't
understand; told you that suit would
be $10," argued the clerk. Eyes, I know;
but don't your old sign out there at the
door say All we want is 20 cents on the
doiiar?'" and picking up his new
purchase the honest old Hubbardston
farmer hastily left. He trottedfalon
congratulated himself on his wonderful
smartness, and was heard to mutter:
Il guess Pm lively enough for these 'er
city folks" But sudden change came
ssO'er the spirit of his dreams" after he
had walked short distance A look of
utter disgust overspread his face, the
bundle fell from his arms, and, in a
Meurnful tone, he said: ''Why in blazes
didn't look around little before I
zbonght them clothes?" The cause of
this CONSERVATION was another
.clQthing sign that read: 'Goods sold
here at half price," After studying the
.sitnation several minutes he resumed
his journey depotward, saying: 81
.Inight have saved S. just as well as not
IL ] hadn't been in such pesky hurry"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-11

John Dingwall. who had several shuttle
boards in his place, which was favor
tie resort for actors and artists and
headquarters for the Caledonian clans.
Mr.. Dingwall was great player him
self, good enough to make hot game
even for Baxter, and although he has
given up playing, he has not forgotten
how. Being asked to describe the
game, Mr.. Dingwall said: Il suppose
it may be called a Scotch sport, al
though | never could ascertain It's
origin. The earliest mention of it that
/ ever came across is in a description
of a journey through Scotland early III
the sixteenth century. The writer
mentions casually that in Edinboro he
saw the men engaged in playing shuttle
board after their days work. and he
speaks as though it were common
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TIE PLAYER.

and familiar game at that time. Curl
ing is no doubt Scotch in origin,
and shuttle board is curling
adapted to summer. 1t is
played OH a smooth board 80 feet long
and about Is inches wide. Along each
side of the board is channel or gutter
to catch the pieces when they slide off
the board. The pieces are iron pound
weights, such as are used on grocers'
scales, made perfectly smooth on the
bottom. The player ShOveS weight
along the board with quick motion and
force enough to make it slide to the end.
across the board. The object of the
player is to make his weight cross that
line and stop within the siX-inch space.
TO do this it is very evident that he
must gauge the force of his play with
delicate accuracy. When two persons
play, each uses four weights, and they
play alternately. Z! weight that stops
short of the line counts one point if it is
not behind the opponents pieces. In
side the SiX-inch space every piece
counts two. One that projects beyond
the end of the board without falling off
is called slip, and counts three. Only
those pieces count which remain on the
board when the eight have been played,
anu UWellly-O1le points llldke Il game. III
one respect SWITCHBOARD is like base
ball-the poorer the play the faster the
score runs up. The good player applies
his efforts to running his opponents
score as we'll as to increasing his own,
and between two Skillful men, game
drags along at the rate of about one or
two points to an inning. The man who
plays last generally makes the only
point. The reason is that each player
aims to knock Ills opponents piece off
the board ard dose 1t most every time.
For examP :. A plays and leaves his
piece inside the space that counts two.
B plays and knocks that piece lover the
border or off the board. leaving his own
piece in its place. A then does the
same thing. and each piece goes off that
way until BIS last play. when he knocks
off AS fourth piece and leaves his own
to count If one of them fails to remove
piece, that piece will be protected on
the next play by his opponent, who
sends along weight to stop about two
feet behind it in a direct line. 1t is
pretty difficult to get both of those off at
one shot. because the weights are circu-
lar and are pretty sure to glance when
they meet. If the forward piece hap
pens to be ship, the opponent may try
to curve his weight around the protect
ing piece, just as pitcher curves
ball, and so knocking it off, leaving his
own in jtSpiace. But that is difficult
and requires very accurate work. A
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-11

are in the game they play on sides,
and one of them after rolling out
the little ball sends one from his four
big ones after it. An opponent plays
next, and it depends upon the success
of the first play as to what he shall try
to do. If the first player did not have
good luck, the second usually rolls very
gently, trying simply to make his ball
stop beside the object ball. With each
play the game becomes more compli-
Gated. The third man sees two play
ground. If he can play so as to save
his ball touching the object ball it will
count him two points unless some sub
Sequent player disturbs their positions.
1t may be his opponent has made just
that play. 1t is then the third players de-
sign to hit his enemy'S ball and knock it
close to the further side of the ground.
He may succeed in doing this, and he
may not. He may instead accidentally
hit the object ball and send it clear to
the further boundary. This will make
it necessary for the succeeding plays to
be made with reference to the new po-
sition of the object bal, for no points are
considered until the end of the game
when the distances of all play balls
from the object ball are measured and
points allowed to the side that has come
the nearest with the greatest number of
balls.
1.-The various complications give room
for lot OF fine points. .CarOming on
the rail is common play, and if
player understands the lay of the
ground thoroughly, is an Interesting
one. Suppose an enemy has left his
ball foot or SO directly in front of the
object ball. To play against it will be
likely to knock the object ball out of
the way also, and thus spoil some of the
plays OF your partners. But it is pos
Slble to carom against the rail so that
your ball will roll gently into the space
between your enemy and the object
ball. You must not understand that we
can always make such a play, but it is
frequently tried for and accomplished
often enough to malE it worth while to
try it.
"A much more interesting play, and
one that requires a great deal of skill, is
to drop your ball upon another in such
way that the hit ball shall roll off
long distance while your own stays right
where it falls. A player is not restricted
as to the manner of sending his ball. 1t
may be rolled gently, or tossed OF
hurled with all force possible. You
see that it gives chance for
considerable variety of play and the de-
veiopment of great accuracy. 1t seems
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lege and two academies. The former is
situated in Battle Creek, Mich, the two
latter in Massachusetts and California.
publishing has always been prominent
feature of their work. For this purpose
they own and run five large publishing
houses, one located in Battle Creek,
Mich, one in Oakland, CAL, and in Mel
bourne, Australia, one in Christiana,
Norway. and one in Basel, Switzerland.
About twenty different periodicals. in
the different languages are published,
besides books, pamphlets and tracts too
numerous to mention. Although less
than forty years old, as a denomination
they number at least $50, 600, and have
conferences organized in nearly every
state and territory of the Union; also in
many of the countries of the Old World.
In many of the largest cities they have
missions or churches and located pas
tors. Their mission in st. Paul holds
services every seventh day" in the
stone chapel on Wacouta street, be-
tween Eighth and Ninth. Their pas
tor, w. Schram, resides at 760 East
Sixth street.
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BEGINNING BOLLI.

bEuiNNlNG bOlIlII..
consists in knowing how all the little
Inequalities will affect the rolling Of a
ball and playing accordingly. This
ground is occupied by an Interesting
group of Italians every pleasant morning
from daybreak till time to go to work,
every pleasant evening from supper
time till dark, and all day on SUNDAYS
and holidays. The rail is usually lined
with spectators, who make great ado
i'll criticiSing and applauding the various
plays.
One of the most persistent of the
bOlli players in this city is Luigi Cresci,
whose occupation when he is not rolling
the balls over the ground is laying
brick. In describing the game and the
points in playing it to the writer, he
said:
1.-The only proper way to play this
game is to have a GROUND prepared and
cleared and surrounded with rail, but
it is not essential to the fun there is in
it. In the old countries it is often the
case that no care is given to the ground.
the only aim being to select bare and
level spot. That is because tits played
by so many people, and just as your best
base ball mines have their fine fields
measured and inclosed, SO we have our
gOad bOlli grounds, and as many an en-
thusiastic base ball game is played in a
vacant lot with an Irregular diamond
and a humpy in-field, SO many of us have
to content ourselves with such a bolli
ground as nature affords.
1.-The only outfit player requires is
four wooden balls about six inches in
diameter. There is besides these one
little ball about half as large. When
game is to be begun all the players as
sembie at one end of the ground. One
of them losses the little ball into the
mark for subsequent plays. The whole
object of the game to roll your balls
so that they siiallrest as near as posi-
bic to the object ball. If four players
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hrst-class player, however, seldom gives
his adversary a chance to protect a 7
piece. The ACCURACY with which a
weiEht can be shot along a thirty-two-
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HETooK A GIRL TOTHE GAME
The Sad Experience ola Base Ball
Enthusiast.
Call.

Philadelphia Call.
when are you going to take me to
see base ball match?' asked the sister
of an enthusiast this morning. you've
promised a number of times to do So"
Yes, yes; I'll take you before long,"
was the reply.
Then after he had left the house he
said to companion: ''I've been roped
in on that thing twice and l want to
avoid it in the future, but I'm afraid I'll
have to take sis. It's an awful job. ex-
planned a game to girl thoroughly, as
l thought. one day. About the seventh
inning she ingeniously asked me when
the other men were coming in tOr use
that stick
"She had actually sat there all the
time and never noticed the two teams
going in and out. Another girl | had
out asked me why some of the players
when they dropped that stick did not
run around the other way. She wanted
them to run bases backward. Oh, no: I
don't want the pleasure of escOrting any
more girls to base ball matches.
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6 Mrs. Cleveland's Good Fortune.

z MIS-. cleveland GOOO Fortune.
While it may ''never rain but it
pOurS," Mrs. Cleveland can not deny out
of her own happy experience that good
fortunes never come singly. When this
interesting lady became Mrs. Cleveland
she was not believed to be rich in purse,
but in the same year that she won
presidents name and a nations love her
venerable grandfather passed away
in the fullnesS of years and
left behind him very pretty
property. It was understood at
the time that the exalted granddaughter
would receive small share of the fam
lily inheritance; but now Congressman
McShane. of Nebraska, is authority for
the statement that this estate includes
in Omaha alone fully 100 lots scattered
all over the city, and many of them are
improved and in the best business por-
ton, where the value is being increased
Mr.. McShane says the present valuation
of Omaha property, in which the presi-
dents wife and mother have each an
eighth interest, is 100000. This would
indicate that Mrs. Cleveland is already
a pretty rich woman, and the future of
Omaha promises to add greatly to her
wealth.
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foot board and made to stop just short of
the end is surprising to novice. The
piece is grasped around the edge
by the ends of the fingers,
and the thumb being directly
behind gives the propelling force Long
practice trains the muscles 81 that just
the right amount of force is impaired to
piece is to be hit, little more force is
required i'll order to allow for the loss of
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TW0:'FOREIGN GAMES
How the Scots Play at Shuttle
Board and the Italians
at Bolli.
The Great Interest That Was
Form erly Taken in the
20 Former Game.
Hot and Exciting Times In
dulged in by the Old
Timers Years Ago.
The National Game Of Italy
as Played in the Back
Yards of Tenements.
Special Letter to the Globe.

Y old Scotch game,
that once was in full
blast in New York, is
shuttle board. 1t is as
Scotch as curling and
is a first cousin to
that Gaelic sport.
There were champions
at the shuttle board a
dozen years ago, who
disputed their titles
as holly as the fistic
professors do now, but
without damage to
each others features.
Among the old timers
were Malcolm Baxter,
who claimed to be the
champ ion of TIL e
JTpitad States and
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She Got More Money and He More
Wife.

She Got More Money and He More
Wife.
Near Americas, Ca, lives q remark
abfe old couple, ARENAS Tucker and his
wife, Narcissa. ARENAS is eighty years
old. and for the past fifty-three years he
has lived on the same place. Seventeen
years ago his then wife gave him to
Narcissa. the present Incumbent Of his
happily. His first wife resides with
them and does their cooking and wash :
ing. and declares that she makes NOR e
money as housekeeper than she made as
wife. Narcissa is sixty years old a nd
tips the beam at 40 pounds, while ArEe-
mas weighs only ninety.fiye poun 3.
Recently e railroad was Blu IL BY their
place, and Narcissa could not enfer the
c&r door when she wasfs4 10 make g
itrip 70 town. so:a flatcak placed at
her Disposal 8 s,s;ss Z
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With Custom Made
Elegant antaoon Boys and Chldrens Clothing the widest
patterns the of
Mammoth Stock Variety Infinite! No style quality wanting
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There Is No Better Sunday Paper
Printed in the Country, Either in
the Quality of Matter or Ex-
cellence and Profuseness
of Illustration.
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OfCourse He Does.
themselves.

New Orleans Picayune.
An old man keeping an ice cream sa-
loon kes to see young people enjoying
themselves.
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.ASJItINN FON SCOKES.
to me vastly superior to bowling, and
the equal OF lawn tennis as game of
skill and an outdoor, healthy exercise
and diversion. wonder that Ameri-
cans do not take it up as. they have so
many other foreign games.
FRANKLIN FILE